Bill Gates was interviewed tonight on the CBS News show 60 Minutes about his efforts to combat climate change: The good news is Gates believes it’s possible to prevent a catastrophic rise in temperatures. The bad news? He says in the next 30 years we need scientific breakthroughs, technological innovations and global cooperation on a scale the world has never seen….
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The baffling problem of why cows prefer sleeping on their left side
Bovine laterality, plus an abundance of roundabouts and time-travelling ancestors in Feedback’s weekly weird round-up Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833062-000-the-baffling-problem-of-why-cows-prefer-sleeping-on-their-left-side/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Impossible Foods Is Now Developing a Plant-Based Alternative To Cow’s Milk
From a report: There’s a myriad of reasons to replace cow’s milk with alternatives like nut milks, oat milk, or soy milk, but for those who enjoy the experience of consuming animal-sourced dairy products, the alternatives just aren’t the same. So Impossible Foods, makers of the Impossible Burger and other plant-based meat alternatives, are working on another food replacement that looks,…
Adorable ancient sea cows once swam through now-bone dry Egyptian desert
Ancient marine beasts used to swim in what is now Egypt’s Eastern Desert. Source: https://www.livescience.com/sea-cow-manatee-relatives-egypt-desert.html
Implanting beef cattle embryos in dairy cows makes them more lucrative
Male dairy calves are worth so little that they are often shot after birth, but beef calves are worth much more. Implanting a beef cattle embryo in a dairy cow could increase profitability and cut greenhouse gas emissions Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2256838-implanting-beef-cattle-embryos-in-dairy-cows-makes-them-more-lucrative/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Farmers are painting eyes on cows’ backsides
Farmers in Africa have found a novel new way of protecting their livestock from opportunistic predators. In Botswana’s Okavango delta, keeping cattle … Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/338709/farmers-are-painting-eyes-on-cows-backsides…
Do Animals Really Anticipate Earthquakes? Sensors Hint They Do
An anonymous reader quotes Scientific American:
For centuries, people have described unusual animal behavior just ahead of seismic events: dogs barking incessantly, cows halting their milk, toads leaping from ponds… Now researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the University of Konstanz, both in Germany, along with a multinational team of colleagues, say they have managed to precisely measure…
Is That a Rooster on My Customer-Support Call? Yes, Blame Coronavirus.
When Robin Frost called Verizon’s customer support last month, she was connected with a rooster. At least that’s what it sounded like. The Pennsylvania resident wanted to ask about a problem with the telecom company’s app, but the agent on the line said she couldn’t hear. Punctuating her words was “the sound of a very authentic, real-sounding rooster,” Ms. Frost recalled….
Michael Moore Offers Free Streaming of Movie Criticizing the Green Movement
Nearly 16 years ago, Slashdot’s original co-founder CmdrTaco posted that liberal film-maker Michael Moore had won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for a documentary about the Bush administration — and noted later that Moore approved downloads of the film through networks like BitTorrent. But now the 66-year-old filmmaker is offering free streaming on his YouTube channel for a…
Could Cows Actually Help Solve the Climate Crisis?
Cows fertilizing the soil can replenish the land and reduce carbon in the atmosphere, reports CNN — with a farming practice called “ultra-high density grazing”. Conventional thinking says that cows are bad for climate change. After all, livestock contribute to around 14% of all global emissions. Researchers at UC Davis estimate that a single cow can belch around 220 pounds –…